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- Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographs
- Title:
- Religious speaker at a civil rights rally in Wrightsville, Georgia, September 20, 1980.
- Creator:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Contributor to Resource:
- Walker, Kenneth
- Date of Original:
- 1980-09-20
- Subject:
- Civil rights movement
Civil rights demonstrations
Police corruption
Southern Christian Leadership Conference - People:
- Attaway, Samuel Roland, 1915-1993
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Johnson County, 32.70146, -82.66008
United States, Georgia, Johnson County, Wrightsville, 32.72933, -82.71986 - Medium:
- black-and-white negatives
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- This civil rights protest, led by the Reverend E. J. Wilson and SCLC official John Martin, challenged the abusive local Sheriff Samuel Roland Attaway. Negative envelope: "Civil Rights March in Wrightsville; 9-20-80; Kenneth Walker; 120391." Newspaper assignment sheet: "SUBJECT: Major rally in Wrightsville (scene of past racial distrubances). INSTRUCTIONS: News coverage will also be doing some color coverage on whether Wrightsville residents are more interested in rally or how hometown football hero Herschel Walker fares in Georgia's game against Clemson in Athens."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ajc/id/6697
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/ajc:6697/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. In addition, no permission is required from the rights-holder(s) for educational uses. For other uses, you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: AJCNS1980-09-20n, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archive
- Contributing Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights: